How to change letter spacing in a Textview

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How can i change letter spacing in a textview  Will it help if I have HTML text in it  I cannot use webview in my code    P S  I m using my own typeface in the textview with HTML text

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check out android textScaleX  Depending on how much spacing you need  this might help  That s the only thing remotely related to letter-spacing in the TextView   Edit  please see  JerabekJakub s response below for an updated  better method to do this starting with api 21  Lollipop

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More space     android letterSpacing  0 1    Less space    android letterSpacing  -0 07

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I built a custom class that extends TextView and solves this problem    Check out my answer here

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Since API 21 there is an option set letter spacing  You can call method setLetterSpacing or set it in XML with attribute letterSpacing

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For embedding HTML text in your textview you can use Html fromHTML   syntax  More information you will get from http   developer android com reference android text Html html fromHtml 28java lang String 29

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This answer is based on Pedro s answer but adjusted so it also works if text attribute is already set   package nl raakict android spc widget  import android content Context  import android text Spannable  import android text SpannableString  import android text style ScaleXSpan  import android util AttributeSet  import android widget TextView    public class LetterSpacingTextView extends TextView       private float letterSpacing   LetterSpacing BIGGEST      private CharSequence originalText             public LetterSpacingTextView Context context            super context              public LetterSpacingTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs           super context  attrs           originalText   super getText            applyLetterSpacing            this invalidate               public LetterSpacingTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyle           super context  attrs  defStyle              public float getLetterSpacing             return letterSpacing             public void setLetterSpacing float letterSpacing            this letterSpacing   letterSpacing          applyLetterSpacing                Override     public void setText CharSequence text  BufferType type            originalText   text          applyLetterSpacing                Override     public CharSequence getText             return originalText             private void applyLetterSpacing             if  this    null    this originalText    null  return          StringBuilder builder   new StringBuilder            for int i   0  i  lt  originalText length    i                  String c       originalText charAt i               builder append c toLowerCase                 if i 1  lt  originalText length                      builder append   u00A0                                    SpannableString finalText   new SpannableString builder toString             if builder toString   length    gt  1                for int i   1  i  lt  builder toString   length    i  2                    finalText setSpan new ScaleXSpan  letterSpacing 1  10   i  i 1  Spannable SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE                                   super setText finalText  BufferType SPANNABLE              public class LetterSpacing           public final static float NORMAL   0          public final static float NORMALBIG    float 0 025          public final static float BIG    float 0 05          public final static float BIGGEST    float 0 2            If you want to use it programatically   LetterSpacingTextView textView   new LetterSpacingTextView context   textView setSpacing 10     Or any float  To reset to normal  use 0 or LetterSpacingTextView Spacing NORMAL textView setText  My text      Add the textView in a layout  for instance    LinearLayout  findViewById R id myLinearLayout   addView textView

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after API   21 there is inbuild method provided by TextView called setLetterSpacing  check this for more

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As android doesn t support such a thing  you can do it manually with FontCreator  It has good options for font modifying  I used this tool to build a custom font  even if it takes some times but you can always use it in your projects

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